The Notion of Subjective Spirit

Abstract

Having seen how Hegel poses the problem of self-knowledge and how he proposes to resolve it by a new logic and a new philosophical method, we must now focus on his notion of Subjective Spirit within the perspective of his total system of science. In introducing the Philosophy of Spirit, we recall, Hegel said that the command Know Thyself comes to man from his own inner oracle that is at the same time the voice of divinity. The problem of the “relation” of the divine Spirit’s eternal self-knowing to man’s coming to know himself as Spirit concerns the relation of the eternal “logical Idea” to the concrete sciences of nature and Spirit.